Tobacco-pipe.



(No Model.)

-T; G. CLIFFORD.

TOBACCO PIPE.

(Application filed Dec. 20, 1899.;

Patented Mar. I3,- I900.

. NITED STATES.

PATENT, me.

THOMAS G. CLIFFORD, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR- OF ONE- HALF TO JOHN H. .REPPER AND VILLAGE, NEW YORK.

MARTIN MAGER, JR.,-,OF MIDDLE TOBACCO-PIPE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent Ila-645,522, dated March i3, 1900.

Application filed December 20, 1899. Serial No. 740,966. (N model-l To aZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, THOMAS G. CLIFFORD,

-of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, haveinvented a new Improvement in Tobacco- Pipes and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, aside view ot'a tobacco-pipecon: structed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal sectional view of: the

same; Fig. 3, a plan orside view of the in 'ternal tubes, showing the members slightly separated.

This invention relates to-an improvement in tobacco-pipes,and particularly to that class in which the mouthpiece is detachable from the stem, and more especially tothat class in which the auxiliary tube isarranged in the stem to facilitate cleaning, the object of the invention being a simple cons'tructionwhereby the internal tube in the stem shall be properly and positively located with respect to the stem and mouthpiece; audit consists in the construction as hereinafter. described, and

particularly recited in the claim. I I

As herein shown, the bowl A of the-p'ipeis provided witha stem B in, substantially the usual manner and of any desired design. Through the stem and opening into the bowl is a passage C, as usual with pipes ofthis character, except that the opening is somewhat larger. The'outer end of the stem is formed with internal threads at. The mouthpiece D may also be of any desired material and design and is formed with a longitudinal passage E,as in the usual construction,except that, like the stem B, the opening is larger than usual, and the inner end of the mouth piece is also formed with internal threads b. The mouthpiece and stem are connected by a tube F, which-is longitudinally divided,

forming two members G H, one or both of which is formed with a longitudinal groove cl. Projecting from the members G H are with threads cf, and the length of the mem bers on opposite sides of the shoulders corresponds, respectively, to the length of the stem and mouthpiece, and theexternal diameter of the united members corresponds closely to "the diameters of .the'passages through the stem and mouthpiece. The'members of the tube F are placed together, so as to form a longitudinal opening and are inserted into the stem of the pipe and the threads e en gaged with the threads (1, so as to bring the end of the stem to abearing against the shoulders I, and the mouthpiece is then placed "over the outer ends of the tubes and the threads bengaged with the threads f, so as to draw the inner end of the mouthpiece to abearing against the opposite faces of the shoulders z". With the shoulders thus formed a fixed stem and mouthpiece, so that theyare fixed with relation to the ends of the inner tube, v

and the sections of the tube are heldin' proper relation to eachother without interlocking means. The outer faces of the shoulders I cor r'espon'd to the external shape-of the stem and practically form'a continuation thereof and if made from difierent material than the stem form an 'or'namental'band.

I am aware that internal split tubes have been arranged in the stems of .pipes,and there fore do not wish to be understood as claiming, broadly, such as my invenvention; but,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in a tobacco-pipe com prising a bowl and a stem and an independ ent-ly formed mouthpiece, said stem and mouthpiece provided with longitudinal passages, and each internally threaded at its end, of a longitudinally-split tube adapted to enter the passages in the stem and mouthpiece, and formed with shoulders against which the inner ends of the stem and mouthpiece abut,

and also formed with external threads on opspecification in the presence of two subscribposite sides of said shoulders with which the ing Witnesses. threads in the stem and mouthpiece engage,

whereby the stem and mouthpiece are con- FIHOMAb CLIFFORD 5 neoted and the members of the tube clamped W'itnesses:

together, substantially as described. WILLIAM H. WHITE,

In testimony whereof I have signed this 1 \VILLIAM WILKINS. 

